An extraordinary biography. A gallery of astonishing work. The legacy of a madman.;;Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages-and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis- What if the world's most celebrated mythological beasts-mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs-were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? ; ; The Resurrectionist offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black's magnum opus- The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray's Anatomy for mythological beasts-dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus-all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. The Resurrectionist tells his story.
- ISBN:
- 9781594746161
- 9781594746161
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Category:
- Historical Fiction
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
-
01-08-2013
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Quirk Books
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions (mm):
- 275x198x20mm
- Weight:
- 0.83kg
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